I’ve noticed in the last few days that Ciaran Cuffe, potential new minister is scrubbing up very well. Today this photo of the Green Party Parliamentary Party 2010 was released. Has he been to Louis Copeland? What has happened to the tweedie type jackets?
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Leaving aside Sargent’s error in writing the letter. This is not rocket science. Help me out here. There are maybe three general groupings that the letters could have come from (and it could have been from one or more of them) Trevor Sargent’s Office The Gardai, or sources close to the Gardai, DPP’s office or […]
At 12.15pm Ciaran Cuffe posted on his blog with reflections on the last two weeks in Irish politics. An hour or so later the word on Trevor Sargent’s error of judgement emerged. By 5.00pm Trevor had resigned. Trevor Sargent resignation speech from Alexia Golez on Vimeo. Having listened to his interview on Six One News […]
The other word of the day yesterday in addition to Twitter was Bounce Let’s turn to Maman Poulet’s political terminology dictionary (a fictional entity for the moment!) Definition: Fianna Fáil manoeuvre to get reluctant/confused junior partners into vote on sticky issue as quickly as possible before they can think for themselves Being Bounced and not […]
Green Party elected officials seem to be having problems with their consciences at the moment. And indeed it’s not only Deirdre de Burca who is calling John Gormley’s leadership into question. As I said on Friday there’s a lot more going on behind the scenes that has very little to do with Willie O’Dea. The […]